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And the smarmy shall inherit the earth

12.12.2013 by David Murray // 2 Comments

If you ever need to throw up, don’t stick your fingers down your throat. Instead, watch this video that asks us to transform “compassion” into a verb. Compassion It.

Compassion this.

(And thanks—kind of—to Mike Long for the steer.)

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  1. Curtiss Petersen says

    December 12, 2013 at 11:06 am

    Thought you might enjoy this meditation on smarm: http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977

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  2. David Murray says

    December 12, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    Thanks for the steer on that, Curtiss. I guess my only question is, if he doesn’t like smarm as society’s gooey building material, what does he suggest we replace it with? It’s so easy to tear down. What we need is people who will build up. Because it’s all about building each other up. And so on, and so forth. Yadda yadda yadda, yackety yack-yack-yack.

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